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Determiners

Read this sentence.

That house is not haunted.
REMEMBER
The highlighted word is a determiner. It indicates which  We use a few, many and
house is spoken about. A determiner is a word that is several with countable

used before a noun to show which person or thing is nouns.
being referred to.  A little and much are used

Some other determiners are this, these, those, my, your, with nouns we cannot
count. Some can be used
a few, a little, many, much, some and several. with both kinds of nouns.

The articles (a, an and the) are also determiners.

B. Tick (3) the correct options and fill in the blanks.

1. Mrs Bott pointed at the hearthrug, “ hearthrug is dirty now.”

(those/that)

2. dress is colourful. (This/That)

3. Miss Manes took photographs of the Hall. (little/some)

4. patients are in the waiting room. (Much/Several)

Articles (a, an, the)

Read these sentences.

Ginger told William that he could not be a soldier like Napoleon. Then William said
he wanted to be a great person. An invention could make him great. The world might

remember him for it.
The highlighted words a, an, the are called articles.

A and an are called indefinite articles.

The is called the definite article.

Use of Articles – a, an Examples

 We use a before a singular countable Mrs Bott had a library in her house.
noun that begins with a consonant sound.

 We use an before a singular countable An invention that is very useful can help

noun that begins with a vowel sound. many people live better.

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